Deadline.com is rounding up “smart” foreign observers to comment on the 2024 election, and Jake Kanter talked to French reporter Kéthévane Gorjestani, who spent time in America as president of the White House Foreign Press Group, meaning she attempted to gain access to Hidin’ Joe Biden. While Trump engaged reporters “all the time,” Gorestani says, gee, the feeling among reporters was that Biden’s handlers were “more reluctant to engage.” You think?
She thinks that’s a mistake. “Let Joe be Joe!”
Gorjestani explains: “At least part of his team is trying to shield him from making a mistake or saying something that makes news that they don’t want him to say. But there’s also a wide agreement among reporters that Joe Biden is never as good as when he’s off the cuff. It comes with its risks, but all leaders have these risks when they sit down for…
